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In this user-friendly guide, Ana Ávila teaches 6 principles to help you honor God with all you have and reflect his character through your creativity. Along with a gospel-centered perspective on life, you'll learn skills to increase efficiency, such as forming healthy habits, using productivity tools, creating tasks and projects, and more. Whether you are achievement-oriented or struggle with discipline, Ávila will show you how to reorient your time, boundaries, decisions, focus, habits, and tools around God's main design for productivity: serving him and helping others.

As a Bratva boss, I'm not allowed to make mistakes. But I make a big one when I kidnap the wrong damn woman. It's not safe to let her go, so instead, I take her up on her offer and hire her to work for me. Under my watchful eye, I make sure she does what she's supposed to and upholds our agreement. As much as I try to keep her at arm's length, she keeps getting under my skin. All the possessive and protective instincts that I never knew I had come out with Maddie. She likes to tease me and taunt me, trying to get me to claim her. She has no idea how much I enjoy the hunt.

In Create Something, first-generation El Salvadorian American Lilly Benitez shares the story of how she created something out of nothing. From a road trip in the 90s through Dallas to Central America to the establishment of her passion project, the Blade Craft Barber Academy, in 2015, this dual narrative delivers a rare glimpse into the trials and triumphs of a first-generation entrepreneur.

Seraphina Moretti is half in love with her best friend's brother. An arranged marriage is in her future, and the groom is not the object of her affection. But then the devil of Wall Street whispers in her ear. Telling her to follow her heart, that the unrequited love she's feeling is reciprocated. She just needs to use a ploy as old as time—jealousy.

My Grandmother's Tale first appeared as a serialized novelette in several issues of The Pearl, an underground magazine of erotica that appeared during the Victorian age. In this story, a grandmother, May, reflects on her sexual awaking at a young age, and details her many sexual trysts over the years, in explicit and often humorous descriptions. She then has some of her friends relate their experiences.

Nyx:

Man nennt mich den König der verlorenen Jungen. Ich war der Erste, doch allein reichte ich meinem Ziehvater nicht. Also erschuf er mehr von mir. Mehr Soldaten, die ihm dienen, weil er uns ein besseres Leben geschenkt hat.

Faith:

Als Tochter der Grinsekatze bin ich dazu bestimmt, in seine Fußstapfen zu treten, auch wenn er das anders sieht. Er will mich aus seiner düsteren und verkommen Welt raushalten. Ich kann aber mehr als im Wonderland Cocktails zu mixen. Und das werde ich ihm dank der Wunderdroge beweisen.

Hawke Ivanov is known to excel at two things: sex and violence. It's why I never took our fling seriously, accepting it with no strings attached. Except now, his mischievous ways have become all-consuming, and I'm his new obsession, especially after one night that changed everything between us. Hawke is using me to run away from his own demons, and when I realize it's not only a matter of our bodies but hearts as well, I tell him sweet little lies to keep him away. All I wanted was a good boy in my bed. The last thing I needed was a dangerous man carving his way into my heart.

When Jeremiah Jackson discovers Deliverance, a beautiful runaway slave, hidden in his wagon, a protective spirit rises within him. She fled from the cruel and relentless Colonel Boone Baxter, who will stop at nothing to reclaim her—including searching the wagons from top to bottom before they are allowed to pull away from the fort. Thankfully, Mrs. Hawthorne has gone into labor early. Will hiding Del beneath the laboring woman be enough to keep her safe?

Outcast by her coven more than three hundred years after her resurrection, Koryn faces certain doom. Without her coven's magic, she will wither away. But earning back their trust means betraying the last living member of her family—the family whose downfall came at Koryn's own hands. Four...

Witches, wizards, and one judgmental, talking cat. Welcome to my new life. I'm Clementine Cole. I thought I was a normal nineteen-year-old with anger issues, but I was wrong. I’m not angry, I'm just a witch. After my cat started talking to me one night, I made a few discoveries: First, magic is real and nightmares aren’t just in your dreams. Second, I'm the last witch in the world. Third, there's an academy for magic users just like me. Trouble is, I don't quite fit in at the academy. Witches get a bad rap, and everyone thinks we're destined to turn evil.

As Christians, we long for a spiritually fruitful life. However, our attempts to work more and hustle harder only leave us feeling weary and worn. Thankfully, God's word supplies the nourishment we so desperately need. As we abide in Jesus, he fills our emptiness with an abundant crop of spiritual fruit.

In Create Something, first-generation El Salvadorian American Lilly Benitez shares the story of how she created something out of nothing. From a road trip in the 90s through Dallas to Central America to the establishment of her passion project, the Blade Craft Barber Academy, in 2015, this dual narrative delivers a rare glimpse into the trials and triumphs of a first-generation entrepreneur.

“Discharged from a hospital just means you’re not dead.” These words of Ralph B. Lilly, M.D., describe his early struggle to recover from a traumatic brain injury. Lilly was a forty-four-year-old practicing neurologist sitting on his motorcycle at a red light when a drunk driver rear-ended him in 1980. In the ICU, after regaining consciousness and being told what happened, he asked, “What’s a hospital? What’s a motorcycle?” This tragic experience transformed his life and his approach to his neurology practice: doctors treat those with brain injury; but loved ones heal them.

Titus is just trying to control his new power without losing himself to the darkness. Already cursed, and now suffering with noxious black magic, he believes his luck couldn't get any worse. Until an assassin appears, ready to end his life. He never expected such an infuriating woman, and now he's not sure what to do. Kill her before she can kill him, or give in to the intense desire that proves bad luck comes in threes. Rae is prepared for a typical hit. But when she can't seem to eliminate her target, she quickly realises that it wasn't only Titus who has a price on his head.

In the second book of the Peabody series, Scruggs finds himself caught in the middle of a ring of international spies, and they are trying to get rid of a stolen piece of technology. He has to decide who to trust among the strangers he meets, and he has to rely on his wits and courage as he tries to find a way back to the home he has longed for in Peabody, Wisconsin.

I made a mistake. Hearts are the most fragile part of the body, and I trusted mine with Jude Carlisle. My villain. My weakness. My stepbrother. Fairytales have a way of turning the most innocent things wicked. Jude lied through his teeth, and I fell for every word. Then he burned both our families to the ground in a sick game of revenge and never looked back.

Lily Jones is thrilled to find herself in the 1950s. She misses her 21st century life but has a blossoming romance with her musician friend Louis and her dream job working on a movie set. The lead actress Kitty Fox is a rising star, yet Lily recalls that after this movie she goes missing, her disappearance an unsolved mystery that barely makes a ripple in Hollywood history. But as Lily begins to understand the brutal studio system of Hollywood in the 1950s, she wonders if there might be something sinister at play behind Kitty's vanishing.

In this short phrase, Elyse Fitzpatrick summarizes the heart of each devotion in Friend of Sinners. Beginning with Ash Wednesday and ending with the empty tomb, you’ll remember daily the love of Jesus, who died so you could have eternal life.

Detective Braxton Hero should keep his distance from me. Even though I can't seem to stay away from him. Letting him get too close is a mistake. One I can't stop making. He sees me. The woman I pretend to be and the one behind the mask. And for the first time, I don't know which version is real. Even though I've spent my life in the shadows, I've never been conflicted about who I am… until he blurred the lines. The thought of him seeing my darkness does something to me. He makes me want things. Things I can't have. A life that isn't mine to take. A love built on lies.

I never would have moved to Chicago, if I had known he would be there. Moving to a brand new city to share an apartment with my older brother was bad enough. Becoming neighbors with Kane Barlow, my brother’s arrogant pro-hockey-playing best friend, was just the cherry on top of the dumpster fire my life has become. Did I mention that Kane is also the guy I had a secret fling with years ago? I haven't seen him since and let’s just say his icy glares and frigid demeanor are reason enough for me to get my own place.